Chapter 178 Meeting
Not long after Yun Qingqing left, Nan Zheng rushed into the meeting room in a hurry.
"General Nan!"
"General Nan is back!"
Everyone went to meet him immediately, but one look at his expression told them that there was still no news of the prince.
Nan Zheng had no time to say anything else and immediately asked:
"I heard the soldiers outside say the princess has arrived? Where is she?"
Nan Zheng was responsible for coordinating the troops to find the prince. He was not there when Yun Qingqing came, and she had left when he came back.
After receiving affirmative responses from the generals and recounting what had just happened, Nan Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief.
"The princess said that the prince's life is not in danger, she must be wrong!"
"I think the princess will send out a signal as soon as she finds the prince. I will disperse the search team to various locations and keep an eye out for special signals so that we can provide timely support."
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Yun Qingqing directly activated the magic talisman to leave Linye City, walked all the way to the highest mountain in the surrounding area, and sat cross-legged.
She closed her eyes, entered the inner scene and activated the Qimen Formation Plate.
The Nine-Star Sky Plate, the Eight-Direction Earth Plate, and the Eight-Gate Center Plate unfolded in sequence. The size and complexity of the formation were far greater than the one not long ago.
Yun Qingqing knew that this was because Xiao Changheng was burdened with the fate of the country and had a very heavy destiny.
Because of this, she would not easily use his fate to tell fortunes unless it was absolutely necessary, and some ordinary methods were not applicable to him.
She quickly locked onto a location and was about to exit the interior when she was suddenly startled and looked up and around.
Beyond the three plates, the enormous Yin-Yang Divine Plate was slowly rotating in an unshakable posture.
Yun Qingqing distributed his spiritual sense to all the array plates and observed for a while, trying to capture the source of the strange feeling from the array plates, but found nothing else.
She no longer dwelled on it, gathered her consciousness, and opened her eyes.
Yun Qingqing stood up, locked onto the direction indicated by the hexagram, activated the magic talisman, and disappeared from the top of the mountain in an instant.
The magic talisman made it easy for her to travel thousands of miles in an instant. In just a moment, she appeared in a valley more than ten miles away.
The terrain of this valley is complex, with strange rocks standing in rows and towering cliffs on all sides.
Perhaps because the impenetrable cliffs blocked the cold current, the valley was not as bitterly cold as the snowy fields outside, and there was even some greenery.
There was the sound of gurgling water in the place ahead that was out of sight.
Yun Qingqing walked towards the source of the sound.
After passing the stone forest that blocks the view, a clear spring appears in front of you, gurgling down along the rugged stone steps and forming a cold, turquoise pool in the low-lying area at the far end.
She stopped.
Xiao Changheng sat cross-legged by the water wearing only a pair of underpants, with clothes and a set of mottled silver armor beside him.
The man's black hair was tied loosely on one side, hanging down along his shoulders. His sturdy upper body was covered with old scars of varying depths, glistening in the thin winter sunlight.
He was cleaning a deep arrow wound on his waist. The bright red blood slowly seeped out, making his handsome face look even paler.
Yun Qingqing frowned and walked over quickly.
Hearing the noise, Xiao Changheng raised his eyes.
The moment he saw who it was, the alertness on his face turned into astonishment, and he stood there in a daze.
Yun Qingqing squatted down in front of him and reached out to check the wound.
Xiao Changheng subconsciously grabbed her hand, and with his other hand hastily grasped the underwear placed aside, but he did not take the next step.
Yun Qingqing frowned and looked up, wanting to speak, but when she met his gaze, which was so complicated that it was completely unreadable, she suddenly forgot what she was going to say.
When their eyes met, it seemed as if the wind had stopped.
She seemed to have a pair of eyes in her mind that overlapped with the ones in front of her, but when she thought about it carefully, there was no trace of them.
Suddenly a small fish jumped out of the cold pond, creating a splash of water.
Xiao Changheng suddenly came back to his senses, grabbed his inner garment and put it on. He did not move in a panic, but his ears were burning uncontrollably.
"...Why are you here?" He asked casually with a hoarse voice, his hands moving non-stop as he was about to tie the belt around his waist.
Yun Qingqing held his hand, and her usually cold voice was rarely filled with a hint of annoyance.
"If you don't want to have any aftereffects, don't move!"
Xiao Changheng paused, then hesitantly let go of her hand, quietly letting her slightly cold little hand press on his abdomen without resisting.
Yun Qingqing carefully examined the wound and confirmed that no vital parts were injured. She breathed a sigh of relief, took out the medicine from the jade ring and applied it, then wrapped it around her waist with bandages.
"It's done." The bandage was finally completed. She exhaled and raised her head, only to see the man looking at her without blinking.
The white air exhaled in winter condensed into tiny water droplets at the tips of his long and thick eyelashes, gleaming with tiny light in the sunlight, making his black eyes, which were much darker than those of ordinary people, even deeper.
Seeing that he didn't move, Yun Qingqing pursed her lips, took out a complete set of robes and cloaks from the space and handed them to him:
"The armor is uncomfortable, you should wear this."
As she said this, she was about to get up and set up the tent.
After sleeping in the open air during the last grain transportation trip, she added a lot of things to her space when she returned to Beijing, but she didn't expect to use them so soon.
But before she could stand up, a shadow fell over her head.
Xiao Changheng leaned towards her, his head buried in her shoulder.
Yun Qingqing trembled as the hot breath blew on her neck. She reached out to push him away, but where she touched was a patch of cold, wet sweat.
She paused and called him softly twice, but there was no response.
Yun Qingqing raised her hand and stroked her forehead.
She took his hand again to check his pulse, then looked at his palm with a serious expression.
When this man used the cold pond water to wash his body, he must have used his internal energy to fight the cold, so his whole body was warm just now.
But at this moment, his forehead was burning hot, but his whole body was cold, and he shivered from time to time.
This person has a fever.
She sighed softly, pulled out a thick blanket and wrapped him up, then got up to set up the tent.
When Yun Qingqing went to find a flat open space, she discovered a corpse on the ground.
This man was wearing the same type of armor as Chang Zongyan, and was obviously a capable general under Xiao Changheng.
A long knife was stuck in the corpse's heart.
She recognized this sword. It was much heavier than an ordinary long sword and was Xiao Changheng's sword.
She couldn't help but turn her head to look at the unconscious man before continuing to get busy.
When Xiao Changheng woke up, he found himself sleeping in a tent, covered with thick bedding, with something warm in his arms.
When I took it out, I saw that it was a hot water bottle.
There was the sound of a crackling campfire outside the tent.
He was a little dazed for a moment.
In my memory, she found me and bandaged me, but where is she now?
He then curled the corners of his lips in self-mockery.
I'm afraid it's burnt and confused.
She should be in the capital right now, so how could she appear in the northwest and find me?
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